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GIS, Maps, Geo and Location Technology by @gletham

Archives for November 6, 2008

It’s cool when you become a Nokia Legend!

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Nokia’s PR arm has a way cool technology to share the latest from Nokia including the latest from their R&D crew… the Nokia Legends campaign, kicked-off in September at NokiaOpenLab uses some really fun and amazing web technologies to provide an exciting online experience in a very fun way… see this edition of the November 6, 2008 Nokia Legends Telegraph

Pan around the newspaper and click on the articles and links to retrieve additional information (and videos) on the solutions provided by the company.

Legends Telegraph
Legends Telegraph
Nokia Legends photo
Nokia Legends photo - I don't think that's me in the pic!!

10 Absolutely Necessary Mobile Apps On My Nokia S60 N82 Smartphone

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I’m often asked, what do I find are the most useful or coolest apps for my mobile? Well, it’s tough to say as I use so many, however, I realized this week that a great way to determine which apps are most needed is to simply switch devices… you soon realize that you have to rush off and quickly install some apps in a hurry! I’ve been testing a Nokia N82 (with GPS naturally) but it was lacking some apps.. so which ones did I have to grab immediately?? The following is a quick list of 10 must have S60 apps that I had to load up (no particular order):

  • Shozu – what better way to upload data to your social bookmarks
  • Nokia email – the new Beta email is a definite must have!
  • Qik – if you’re into video then another must
  • Flixwagon – another video sharing app.. very nice and connects with Ovi too!
  • Screenshot – say no more, what writer doesn’t need screen caps?
  • FriendView – new this week from Nokia
  • WHERE – all the location-aware widgets you can imagine and then some!
  • Google gmail – I have a bakup of all my email on gmail and its on my mobile naturally!
  • Gmaps Google Maps is awesome and I’d be lost without it!!
  • Jaiku mobile client
  • mywaves – you have to have a fun application or two! (via Nokia download)
  • Twibble... location-aware Twitter client… nice!
  • Special Mention – Sports Tracker although it came loaded on the device!
  • Mobblr for last.fm mobile.. although it doesn’t freaking work!!

These are but 10 of the top apps that I absolutely have to have on my mobile – I could easily go on!

Nokia N82 Applications - must haves!
Nokia N82 Applications - must haves!

What Are your MUST-HAVE mobile applications??

Got a Must Have S60 App?

Desktop GIS a new book from Pragmatic

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A new book of interest brought to my attention via O’reilly Media… Desktop GIS shows you how to assemble and use an Open Source GIS toolkit. You’ll find strategies for choosing a platform, selecting the right tools, integration, managing change, and getting support. See details of the book HERE

desktop GIS
desktop GIS

WHERE LBS application users can now enjoy WHEREVision!

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A great one today from uLocate… Now users of the way cool WHERE location-aware mobile application can enjoy seeing what other users are doing. It’s interesting to see exactly WHERE people are and how they are using the WHERE LBS application. See people finding local businesses, locating a nearest Starbucks shop, using Gasbuddy to find cheap fuel, using flickpics to see photos near them etc…

WHEREVision (http://www.where.com/jin/wherevision.jin) is akin to Flickr vision, you know, a cool and engaging World map showing user icons and revealing what they are doing. Sit back, load up WHERE Vision and watch what people are doing… nice! A great addition to what I think is definitely one of the top 5 mobile LBS applications that you can find anywhere! See WHERE http://www.where.com

WHERE Vision, putting WHERE users on the map
WHERE Vision, putting WHERE users on the map

A realistic view of the world for pedestrians from Tele Atlas Urban Maps

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Today Tele Atlas announced the availability of Tele Atlas Urban Maps, designed to enrich the mobile users’ location-based services (LBS) experience. Available for nearly 120 cities globally. Tele Atlas Urban Maps integrates Tele Atlas 2D City Maps, which show building footprints, sidewalks, town blocks, parks and railway infrastructure along with 2D Landmarks – see more

ODT’s 2008 Presidential Election Map

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This from a reader… ODT’s 2008 Presidential Election Map allows you to see exactly how and why Barack Obama’s victory was so stunning. This map shows how dramatically the political landscape has been changed especially when mapped out on a USA population map. ODT’s new election map shows how many people live in each state. Each of the map’s grid squares represents 250,000 people. On the map is the exact population of the larger states (for ease of comparison, and to eliminate the need to count individual blocks) along with each state’s electoral votes. The bigger the state on the map, the greater the electoral clout. See here

ODT’s 2008 Presidential Election Map
ODT’s 2008 Presidential Election Map
ODT’s 2008 Presidential Election Map - inset
ODT’s 2008 Presidential Election Map - inset
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